[ale] Laughing myself sick!

Adrin haswes at mindspring.com
Sun Oct 13 19:37:38 EDT 2002


That is a very good point.
That office that has the same cute little screen saver on all the machines that some
employee brought in and everyone just had to have.  Could just be the one program that
gets the company fined.

Adrin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Coleman [mailto:oloryn at benshome.net]
> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 7:11 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [ale] Laughing myself sick!
>
>
> On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:44:51 -0400, Irv Mullins wrote:
>
> >Say, just how much does the never-ending attempt to remain 'compliant'
> >add to the total cost of operating a Windows shop?
>
> Excellent point.  Next time someone comes out with a Windows/Linux TCO
> comparision, we should be asking "Do your figures take into account the
> expenditure of money and personnel time required to keep licenses for
> proprietary software straight, or the cost of BSA fines if the company
> fails to do so?"
>
> Ben
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